Meadow Surprises

Meadows have surprise

You can find them if you look

Walk softly through the velvet grass 

And listen by the brook.

You may see a butterfly 

Rest upon a buttercup 

And untold its drinking straws 

To sip the nectarous.

You may scare a rabbit 

Who is sitting very still 

Through at first, you may note him

When he hops you will.

A dandelion whose fuzzy head 

Was golden days ago

Has turned to airy parachutes 

That mutter when you blow

• explore the meadow house 

The burrows in the ground 

A nest beneath tall grasses the ant's amazing mound

Oh! Medows have surprises

And many things to tell

You may discover these yourself 

If you look and listen well.